Tue. 02/01 - 2,500 Subway Cars Under the Sea

The New York City subway cars taking on a second job on the ocean floor. Plus, a successful drone created using Leonardo da Vinci’s aerial screw design. And crows in Sweden are being trained to pick up litter.

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Links:

• Sinking 1,000 NYC subway cars in the Atlantic to create a reef didn't (Fast Company)
• Growing Pains for a Deep-Sea Home Built of Subway Cars (NY Times, 2008)
• New York's Subway Lives On in the Atlantic Ocean as Artificial Reefs (PBS Thirteen)
• Bye bye Brightliners: MTA's oldest subway cars bid farewell on final run after almost 58 years (amNewYork)
• More Than 2,500 New York City Subway Cars Are Now Artificial Underwater Reefs. See This Artist’s Remarkable Photos of Them Here (artnet)
• Photographing the New York City Subway Cars That Retired as Artificial Reefs (Atlas Obscura)
• New York City's newest oyster bed is 50,000 mollusks and 5,000 old public school toilets (Washington Post)
• NY State Drops Two More Vessels, Including "Chickadee" The Tugboat, Into Waters For Artificial Reefing (Gothamist)
• MTA Redbird Train Scrapping off Shark River Reef New Jersey (YouTube)
• This drone flies using da Vinci's 530-year-old helicopter design (CNET)
• A New Quadcopter Is Based on da Vinci's 530-Year-Old Helicopter Model (Interesting Engineering)
• Swedish firm deploys crows to pick up cigarette butts (The Guardian)
• Crows may soon be Sweden's newest litter pickers (The Local Sweden)
• Crows trained to collect cigarette butts on the street (Boing Boing)
• Latest Attraction at French Theme Park: Crows That Pick Up Trash (NY Times)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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